Toronto

[VaticanAssassin]

So I'm there next week for business. I have actually never been so will stay extra day. Right around Bay and Davenport.

So what shall I do and see?

Restaurants?

Cool bars near hotel?

So far the only advice I've received is not to tell customs I'm there on business.

 

[Mello_SixtyNine]

So I'm there next week for business. I have actually never been so will stay extra day. Right around Bay and Davenport.

So what shall I do and see?

Restaurants?

Cool bars near hotel?

So far the only advice I've received is not to tell customs I'm there on business.

If you're not afraid of heights, there's the CN Tower.

 

[BoyNextDoor]

Hockey Hall of Fame

 

[Ishmael]

So I'm there next week for business. I have actually never been so will stay extra day. Right around Bay and Davenport.

So what shall I do and see?

Restaurants?

Cool bars near hotel?

So far the only advice I've received is not to tell customs I'm there on business.

Buy the wife some decent English china. When you go to a restaurant, if they have a French accent.............leave.

Research the exchange rate. You can get screwed entering and leaving.

Unless things have changed the beer is GREAT! Just take it slow, it's not 5% either.

Back to food. Whatever is local and fresh is what you want to order, no matter what a 'friend' might say. You don't go to Boston for Mexican food.

Pay attention to the phrasing, it'll come in handy later.

None of the titty dancers love you. But that's the same as here in the states.

If your entertaining clients, let then choose. (See above)

Ask Lance, then do the opposite.

Ishmael

 

[gypsyTX]

Poutine at Leslieville Pumps. Nom nom.
http://www.blogto.com/restaurants/leslieville-pumps-toronto/

 

[Lancecastor]

Bay & Dav is just about as white as you can get in Toronto.

A stroll south (in the direction of the CN Tower...it's how you get around in trana) you have shopping geared towards the entitled, including Lovecraft (the sex shop, not the Lit f'Auxteur).

I say go to Corenti's first....grab some fresh Cubans.

Here's a great window-shopping and girl-watching route.
Young artistes, models, dancers mostly.

Get to Queen & Spadina and walk west on the north side of Queen to Bathurst; if at night after 10pm, stop in at the Bovine for a beer and soak up the atmosphere.

Deke through Kensington Market for a peek if it's a Sat/Sunday.

Head back east on the south side to Soho Street.

Then cross the street to the Black Bull (est. 1833) for beers on the patio if it's sunny, regardless of the temp.

The rest of the city is fairly ordinary.

 

[EternalFantasies]

When you go to a restaurant, if they have a French accent.............leave.

Probably the best, and hilarious advice.

(hmmm.. I wonder if Ish considers that kissing ass. Oh well. )


VA - It's been a while, what I recall there was a street where they did all the festivals, i think its St Paul. I also recall Queen West, college Street and Dundas West.

You bar hop till you find a cool place. Find likewise looking people and ask them, they're friendly in Toronto.

 

[RobDownSouth]

So far the only advice I've received is not to tell customs I'm there on business.

^^^This!

I made this mistake the first time my company sent me to toronto on business. Told Customs I was there for two weeks on business, they replied where is your work permit?

50 Canadian dollars please.

Shit.

They took me out of the queue, marched me with a customs officer on each side of me down to an ATM where they watched me withdraw $50 to pay for a work permit.

And don't listen to your addle-brained Daddy about the strip clubs. While it's true the strippers won't love you, they WILL do a lot more full-contact stuff that US strippers won't do. Most of them are from Russia or slavic countries.

 

[DooleyDarter]

I have traveled around the world for business for the past 40 years. Canada is always the worst to get into for a business traveler. Never Ever tell them you are coming in to work. The immigration folks turn into thieves trying to extort money from you. I have had better luck just saying I am coming in for a meeting.
I got into a pissing contest with a Canadian immigration officer once over set of blueprints i was carrying. He said I had to give him the value of the drawings so he could determine the amount of taxes I had to pay, we went back and forth until I just tossed them into a garbage can and told him to fuck off.

Or just tell them you are coming up to drink their beer and have fun.

 

[VaticanAssassin]

Thanks for the Input fuckers!

 

[VaticanAssassin]

One last question. Is Canada a civilized country that I can use the dollar wherever I go or should I pick up some of their monopoly money for running around....

 

[silver gurl]

One last question. Is Canada a civilized country that I can use the dollar wherever I go or should I pick up some of their monopoly money for running around....

You will need monopoly money. Currently the loonie is low, so you make out.

 

[water505]

^^^This!

I made this mistake the first time my company sent me to toronto on business. Told Customs I was there for two weeks on business, they replied where is your work permit?

.

There's a city named Toronto in Mississippi? Did you call anyone a queer while you were there?

 

[chillywilly2]

I have traveled around the world for business for the past 40 years. Canada is always the worst to get into for a business traveler. Never Ever tell them you are coming in to work. The immigration folks turn into thieves trying to extort money from you. I have had better luck just saying I am coming in for a meeting.
I got into a pissing contest with a Canadian immigration officer once over set of blueprints i was carrying. He said I had to give him the value of the drawings so he could determine the amount of taxes I had to pay, we went back and forth until I just tossed them into a garbage can and told him to fuck off.

Or just tell them you are coming up to drink their beer and have fun.

I had a friend in Toronto that was a draftsman working on the Toronto airport.
He was also Iranian.
He was heading to New York city to visit his daughter.
US customs agents are not friendly to Iranians traveling with airport blueprints

I don't much like Toronto anymore.Lived there 15 years...Ottawa is way nicer

 

[thør]

One last question. Is Canada a civilized country that I can use the dollar wherever I go or should I pick up some of their monopoly money for running around....

I've not been to Toronto, but in other civilized Canadian cities a credit card will suffice for most transactions.

 

[chillywilly2]

I've not been to Totonto, but in other civilized Canadian cities a credit card will suffice for most transactions.

Thor, do not stick your credit card in the bikini panty string...jeeez man

And actually Vat, we don't do that here...20 bucks for a lap dance, cash and they don't give a good exchange rate so get the nice coloured stuff


oh yeah..spelling too thor

 

[thør]

Thor, do not stick your credit card in the bikini panty string...jeeez man

I know where the slot is.

 

[chillywilly2]

I know where the slot is.

cha ching

 

[KingOrfeo]

Of course, what every True Litster wants to know is: Does Toronto have a red-light district?

 

[VaticanAssassin]

Of course, what every True Litster wants to know is: Does Toronto have a red-light district?

Ha!

Trust me here...

If that was my bag, a red light district would not be needed to bury the bone....

 

[chillywilly2]

Of course, what every True Litster wants to know is: Does Toronto have a red-light district?

Huge unemployed immigrant population so it should be ok

 

[Hard_Rom]

You're north of the downtown core area so the 'best' bars and restaurants will be a bus or cab south a few blocks. Davenport area is known as a residential area. You might find a nice local restaurant.

Exchange rate is well in your favour. Some places take Yank money but too easy to counterfeit so many places won't. Or you will lose out on exchange rate big time.

If you don't try to see the Hockey Hall of Fame, don't bother coming back!

 

[KingOrfeo]

You're north of the downtown core area so the 'best' bars and restaurants will be a bus or cab south a few blocks. Davenport area is known as a residential area. You might find a nice local restaurant.

But where is the red-light district?!

 

[RobDownSouth]

Last time I was there, I had a great time at JOEY in Eaton Centre. I vaguely recall staggering across the street to the outdoor patio of the Hard Rock Toronto, but it might be a bit too cold for that now.

 

[KingOrfeo]

Last time I was there, I had a great time at JOEY in Eaton Centre. I vaguely recall staggering across the street to the outdoor patio of the Hard Rock Toronto, but it might be a bit too cold for that now.

Cold? But, it's already April . . .

. . . in Canada. Which means your spit won't freeze before it hits the ground.